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Turkish Airlines (THYAO) has suspended its flights to Libya due to mounting security concerns, severing the last foreign air link to the North African oil producer.

We have stopped flights to Misrata for the past few days, spokesman Ali Genc said by phone. Until security is restored we dont plan to restart them.

The suspension comes amid escalating violence following the ouster and killing of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011. Libya is now split between Islamists who control Tripoli and the west, and the United Nations-recognized government of Abdullah al-Thinni in the east, whose forces said they carried out Jan. 4 airstrikes on Misrata that prompted Turkish Airlines decision.

Those strikes were a significant development as Misrata was the only place in the country where there was no real military action, Riccardo Fabiani, senior North Africa analyst at Eurasia Group in London, said by phone. The conflict has now escalated to the point where talking about a deal between the two sides is meaningless.

The two sides have reached a military stalemate with the Tobruk government having air superiority while Islamists are more powerful on the ground.

Turkish Airlines previously also operated flights to Tripoli, the eastern city of Benghazi and Sebha in the south, according to its website.

Alongside Libyas growing isolation, the oil industry that fuels its economy is being slowly dismantled.

On Jan. 4, a Greek-operated oil tanker was bombed near a port in eastern Libya, killing a Greek and a Romanian sailor. At the end of December, a fire at Libyas largest oil terminal engulfed three storage tanks after an attack by Islamist militants.

The latest spate of fighting led to a decline in output to 352,000 barrels a day, which makes Libya, holder of Africas largest oil reserves, the smallest producer of the 12-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Libya was producing about 1.6 million barrels a day before the 2011 war.

The Central Bank said last week Libyas foreign reserves are being depleted, without providing details. Reserves stood at about $100 billion in June.

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The chaos afflicting Libya escalated Monday after the internationally recognized government conceded that it had bombed a Greek-owned oil tanker in a port city controlled by a militant group aligned with Islamic State extremists.

The apparently mistaken bombing late Sunday prompted Turkish Airlines, the only foreign carrier still flying to Libya, to suspend flights into the country, which has witnessed a dangerous escalation in fighting in recent weeks.

Libyan military spokesman Ahmed Mesmari said the Tobruk-based government had received no information about the tanker's presence in Libyan territorial waters and "treated it as a dangerous and suspicious target that threatens national security," the Associated Press reported.

"We regret the loss of lives," Mesmari said, referring to the two crew members, a Greek and a Romanian, who were killed in the attack on the Liberian-flagged Araevo.

The Araevo, which was carrying 12,600 metric tons of oil, had been chartered by Libya's state-owned National Oil Corp., the Greek Foreign Ministry reported in a statement. It said the vessel had 26 crew members 21 Filipinos, three Greeks and two Romanians.

The bombing followed a recent spate of kidnappings and killings of Egyptian workers in Libya, where rival militias have been fighting for power since the October 2011 ouster and killing of longtime Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi.

Egyptians seeking work and escape from their country's economic disaster have become particular targets of the more radical Muslim militias, including the Islamic State-allied militants based in the eastern city of Derna. Islamic State has terrorized much of the Middle East in a spree of bombings and beheadings and last year proclaimed a Muslim caliphate in the vast territory it occupies in Iraq and Syria.

French President Francois Hollande called on the United Nations to address the spiraling violence consuming Libya and spreading arms and insurgents to the former French colonies of the Sahel region of northern Africa.

"We are making sure to contain the terrorism that took refuge there, in southern Libya. But France will not intervene in Libya because it's up to the international community to take its responsibility," Hollande said in an interview Monday with France-Inter radio.

French forces chased Islamic militants out of northern Mali two years ago and troops, armor and war planes are based in Niger's capital, Niamey, to conduct surveillance and containment operations in those two Sahel countries as well as in Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Chad.

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